Miscellany, Apr. 8, 1940

In Minneapolis, Frank Leschisin, 67, who said when arrested by police
for murdering his nagging wife, "Yes I shot herI should have
done it 15 years ago," was set free because a grand jury refused
to indict him. Reason: his son, his wife's sister, all the witnesses
called (and 50 neighbors who wanted to testify) all said he was
justified.

Cookery

In Chicago, Mrs. Marie Muhne Budge was granted an uncontested divorce
from Howard Budge, English chef. Grounds: he didn't like her German
cooking.

Baptized

In Dallas, Tex. county jail, Walter Redden, booked for assault, was
baptized in a bathtub by a convicted murderer Preacher...